this happened, everyone just came together. >> home depot and several other local businesses donated all of the building project materials. thanks for joining me today. i'm paula reid in washington. "cnn newsroom" continues with jim acosta. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm jim acosta in washington. we start with breaking news. dr. anthony fauci says a heavily mutated covid variant that's potentially more contagious and more vaccine resistant may already be here in the u.s. >> would not be surprised if it is. we have not detected it yet. when you have a virus like this, it almost invariably is ultimately going to go essentially all over. >> the omicron variant has been detected in belgium, israel, and

hong kong, and within the last few years, italy, germany, and the uk also announced they had detected cases within their borders. british prime minister boris johnson says scientists are learning more about the variant by the hour. >> it does appear that omicron spreads fvery rapidly and can b spread between people who are double vaccinated. >> that right there is the worst case scenario, what scientists have long warned about unmitigated spread and what it could lead to, a super variant that evades our current vaccines. moderna is sounding the alarm saying omicron represents a significant potential risk to its vaccine. pfizer says it will take 100 days to tweak its vaccine if needed so governments are trying to buy time by moving to block flights from south africa and several neighboring countries. the u.s. will start restricting travel on monday. let's go to david mckenzie in johannesburg, south africa.

david, we're hearing of intense anger and frustration from the south african government and scientists. what are they saying? >> reporter: well, jim, despite the travel bans coming in place because of what officials in the uk, u.s., and other places say is because of public health reasons, there is anger here in south africa from the very scientists that alerted this to the world so quickly. the south african government just earlier today saying that it's really a case of punishing excellent science. and it's worth remember could the w.h.o. and other health bodies saying that these kind of travel bans which may seem helpful in fact only help on the margins. don't necessarily stop or even slow that variant like this. if you compare where the pandemic is in south africa to the u.s. and the uk, you kind of get some sympathy for these scientists. but it's all about trajectory, and where i'm sitting in this province of south africa, certainly cases are rising fast.

jim? >> and how bad is it there right now? do you get to live your life normally down there, david, or is it like it is in a lot of other countries where people are wearing masks and there are disruptions everywhere you go. >> reporter: there is a mask mandate, and that is being enforced from the severally days of the pandemic, jim. but in terms of restrictions they are light right now. in terms of the state of the pandemic, nowhere near as bad as it's in parts of western europe and eastern europe at the moment. but you see these early signs that the numbers are rising in this part of the country, as i said. you also start hearing about people testing positive. we've all gone through this around the world for many, many months. speaking to doctors today, though, there isn't much pressure on the hospitals right now in this part of south africa. both the public and the private system, it's relatively empty. they hope possibly that while this variant appears to be more

transmissible, they're hoping it isn't necessarily more severe. but there is going to be this agonizing wait for several weeks as scientists here in south africa and the u.s. and elsewhere try to really understand in the lab whether this does evade immunity from previous infection or, worst case scenario, evades the existing vaccines. we just don't know at this point. but there is a sense that south africa has been punished for its good work. jim? >> all right, dave mckenzie, we do appreciate their good work. keep it coming. thanks so much for that report. the u.s. travel ban starts monday, but is it too little too late? consider this -- on friday, 600 travelers flying in from south africa were tested for covid after they landed at the airport in amsterdam on friday. 61 of them, 10%, tested positive, no word if it was the omicron variant. let's bring in professor and

dean of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine dr. peter hotez. dr. hotez, all of this sounds very worrisome. dr. fauci says he wouldn't be surprised if this new variant is already in the u.s. what do you think? do you think it's here? i mean, i think it's probably safe to assume it's somewhere here. >> yeah, it's likely here, jim. part of it, the problem is, are centers for disease control has underperformed in terms of genomic testing. we've never gotten it up to the level that we really need it. i think, though, there's a few things we have to keep in mind and keep things in perspective. you know, pretty much any time we've seen a new variant, it's already spread around the world. so the fact that omicron is in multiple countries in europe, in the u.s., is not necessarily an ominous sign. i think that's a key point to keep in mind. also remember we've not seen any evidence that omicron produces more severe disease than any of

the other variants. another point to keep in mind. and in terms of whether or not this variant is going to resist the immune response to our current vaccines, it's possible, but it's unlikely to be totally resistant. it may be partially resistant, just like other variants like the b 1351 from south africa, remember that one, the beta variant. and the lamda variant. and those never really took off even though they had a lot of concerning mutations in the spike protein. so we'll know about how effective vaccines are because we can do a test. what you can do is measure antibody responses to the vaccines either in laboratory animals or from patients who have been -- or volunteers who have been immunized against the vaccines, and see if those antibodies will cross neutralized the omicron variant. we'll know that probably by next week at this time or within the next two weeks.

that's going to be a vital piece of information. for instance, our scientists at texas children's hospital and baylor are now looking exactly at that, the immune response to our vaccine, see figure it cross neutralizes omicron. that's going to be a key point. the most important thing we really need to know right now is how transmissible is this variant. yes, it's taken off in the province that contains pretoria and johannesburg, but is it sufficient to outcompete the delta variant? and i don't really think we have strong evidence for that either. so you know, a week from now if we have this discussion we'll have a lot more information. right now i think it's important to focus on what we do know is the biggest threat in the united states, and that is the delta variant. it is accelerating now. and the u.s. population isn't completely vaccinated. >> what about these travel restrictions? is this the best way to slow the spread, or is it time to start requiring vaccinations to fly

worldwide? or to conduct, you know, mandatory testing when people fly in from another country? what do you think? >> well, i thought we had mandatory testing from south africa, so they are presumably negative when they boarded the plane. and all of a sudden they became positive. either the testing was fraudulent or inadequate or i think we have to work that out, as well. what we do know is travel bans have not been very effective this entire pandemic. i mean, remember the very beginning, jim, back in early 2020, we talked about travel bans from china. in the meantime, this virus entered into the united states from southern europe to ignite that horrible epidemic in new york city that started in march and april. so travel bans -- we don't really have a good sense on the global travel of this virus. i think much more productive than travel bans would be refocusing our energies on trying to vaccinate southern africa because that's how these new variants emerge. they emerge out of large

unvaccinated populations. alpha came out of the unvaccinated population in the uk in 2020. delta the unvaccinated population, india, 2021. now omicron, among unvaccinated population in africa. if the g7 leaders are serious about stopping new variants, forget about the travel bans, let's go vaccinate the african people. >> and even without this new variant, hospitalizations in the u.s. are rising again. we're averaging more than 1,000 deaths per day. how bad could things get if omicron is a nasty variant that does cause more hospitalizations, more problems with being more transmissible and so on? >> well, i think this is a key point here. you know, we're wringing our hands about omicron, while the delta variant is decimating our country now. the numbers are going back up. we only have 59% of the u.s. population vaccinated.

a high percentage have not gotten boosters, so we've got waning immunity. and then the unvaccinated are going to suffer just like they did over the summer here in texas and the south where we had 100,000 americans unvaccinated who have lost their lives since the summer, defiant of vaccinations. and then those who are infected and recovered are not getting vaccinated. they have incomplete protection. so we have -- we have to really try to find a way nationally to convince people to get fully vaccinated and not only will that help them not suffer and lose their lives from delta variant or get hospitalized, but it will likely -- we'll know this more in the next days -- build in strong resilience against the omicron variant, as well. that's the single most important thing now the american people have to do. make certain that everybody's vaccinated including their kids and those who are infected and recovered have to get vaccinated on top of that.

>> all right. dr. peter hotez, thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> all right. the new covid variant has rattled global markets. the dow had its worst day in more than a year closing down more than 900 points. joining me is the anchor of "quest means business" richard quest. richard, put the frenzy on wall street into context for us. is s-- is this something we should be concerned about? i can't imagine what the market will do on monday after we've been stewing on this all weekend. >> we shouldn't be concerned, but we should be wary if that's not a contradiction in terms, jim. what i mean is, of course, it's understandable, the market was not being irrational when it fell on friday. the level of uncertainty -- you heard peter talking about it just then, the unknowns that we just simply don't know. and until there's an element of certainty, as long as travel bans increase and it looks as if there will be more restrictions,

that will slow down economic activity. therefore, companies and corporations will not know how to react. will we -- i'll give a blunt example here. let's just say omicron does expand and does become a variant of greater concern, what happens to all the return-to-work policies, including in our own at warnermedia, cnn, january tenth, what happens to that if this get worse? and that level of uncertainty is what is going to spook markets and spook investors, and it's perfectly logical. >> yeah. i don't want to think about that, richard, at all. and we have the u.s. and other countries instituting travel bans. >> right. >> you know, i asked peter hotez about this. you know, a lot of the experts out there, they just don't think these travel bans work very well. and they're just going to hurt the airline industry. >> well, first of all, the flight that came from africa to

amsterdam where 10% were shown to be positive, that's an anomaly. i don't understand that yet. >> yeah. >> under an enormous amount of international travel over the last year, and i can tell you, you know, i'm on to my 60th pcr test for travel purposes. so there's testing galore going on. i don't really follow what happened. i can understand the political necessity to say we're doing something, and the easiest and most obvious answer is pull up the barricades. but a more sophisticated response is what's required if we're going to carry on with our normal lives. for instance, the british government announcing that it was raising the test you take on day two from a lateral flow antigen, it now has to be pcr. i can see, for example, the united states considering whether or not there needs to be a return to the pcr or antigen test once you get to the united

states. currently it's just on departure. so there's lots of ways you can skin this, if you like. you don't need a sledgehammer to crack the nut. >> yeah. and we've already reported on issues with the supply chain and how everything from gas to groceries is more expensive these days. it's happening all over the world. americans are upset about it, but by the way it's happening, you know, in other places. if the world shuts down again, what happens -- all that gets exacerbated. >> oh, absolutely. which is why i don't think the world is going to shut down again. i do not foresee certainly in europe and the united states, i do not foresee widespread lockdowns of the sort we saw in 2020. it's highly unlikely. the public wouldn't stand for it. they would just -- it would be broken before it got started. but i do see targeted lockdowns, i see those for the unvaccinated. i see many more restrictions being introduced for the

unvaccinated, where they can go, how they can go, and the reality is now that peter hotez made this point extremely clearly, let's take the united states, just about 50% is fully vaccinated. now that is the danger for delta and omicron. those of white house are fully vaccinated with boosters have a much lower risk for serious injury or harm as a result. and the truth of the matter is focus on that, focus on the -- people are -- you know, jim, friends and contacts and -- people are saying to me, i'm worried about omicron, i'm worried about omicron. well, yes, you may well be, but you should be more worried about the low level of vaccination in many of the countries that are responsible, and the failure of the g7 and the g20 to actually vaccinate the developed world so that we're all in this boat together rather than at the moment the inequality that exists. >> yeah.

and richard, excellent segue because in a statement, president biden noted that the u.s. had already donated more vaccines to other countries than every other country combined. do you think there was a missed opportunity here? i mean, if he's wrong there -- yeah, go ahead -- >> don't start me on this. we could be here until the top of the next hour. look, jim, firstly, under the previous president, you hoarded -- this country and europe, my country the uk hoarded vaccines to where you had three or four times the vaccines that you could possibly give. you were hoarding a vaccination and vaccine that you didn't give, the oxford astrazeneca one. it was only late in the day, the g7 originally wanted last year to give a billion doses away. they couldn't even get to 700 million of their first pledge round. the reality is, yes, i hear everybody saying how much they're doing, but until they do

more, you know the saying, i'm going -- i said it last night, you know, nobody's safe until everybody's safe. it sounds trite, but what you're seeing with omicron is the absolute reality of that cute saying. >> yeah. and richard, you and i are old enough to remember when we used to tackle problems globally. instead of just pulling up our borders, acting like icelationsists and doing -- isolationist and doing things in our own country. to think about this or we're not going to fix the issues and the pandemic is the first among them. richard quest, great stuff, as always. thank you so much. >> thank you, sir. coming up, gop leaders staying silent once again. this time after republican congresswoman lauren bobert makes a disgusting comment about her democratic colleague ilhan omar. will they ever draw the line? [gaming sounds] [gaming sounds]

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republican congresswoman lauren boebert making horrific islamophobic comments about one of her democratic colleagues, congresswoman ilhan omar, who is muslim. >> i was getting into an elevator with one of my staffers, and he and i were leaving the capitol, we're going back to my office. and we get in the elevator and i see a capitol police officer running hurriedly to the elevator. i seeet from all over his -- see fret all over his face. i look to my life, there she is, ilhan omar. i said, well, she doesn't have a backpack. we should be fine. [ applause ] we only had one floor to go. ah -- looked over. i said, look, the jihad squad decided to show up for work. >> she later wrote on twitter i apologize to anyone in the muslim community i offended with my comment about representative omar. i've reached out to her office

to speak with her directly. there are plenty of policy differences to focus on without the -- this unnecessary distraction. fellow flame-throwing republican marjorie taylor greene batted away the apology and escalated the attack, not surprisingly, tweeting this -- "democrats want us acccensored and shut down, nr sympathetic to those who fund murder with our tax dollars. ilhan omar and the jihad squad are all three and undeserving of an apology. joining me is former republican congressman barbara comstock and cnn political commentator and clinton white house adviser paul bagala. barbara comstock, let me ask you this first -- this kind of hateful rhetoric, it just emboldens the far right. you just worry that she's going to be enflaming somebody to the point where they could act out and do something violent. what are your concerns when you heard what boebert had to say and how this whole thing is

playing out? >> well, we know since january 6th and even before there have been more threats to members of congress than ever. this year is going to be the highest sort of threat level that there's ever been. when you have this kind of just unconscionable attack -- and it's not just that she needs to apologize to the congresswoman who she attacked, she needs to apologize to the american people. she needs to poapologize to the republican party and a lot of other people. it goes way beyond that. i'd also like to point out that she has a republican opponent, a marina zimmerman, who in response to adam kinzinger pointed out lauren boebert is trash, i would agree. and marina zimmerman said help me take out the trash. and that's what i think needs to be done here. both lauren boebert and marjorie greene have republican women who are running against them in the primary. i'm on two pacs that support republican women who we

specifically do not support marjorie greene or lauren boebert, and you know, even -- those are very red districts, you're going to end up with a republican. you can have a conservative republican woman without having a crazy, you know, very unpleasant, you know, nasty, you know, unconscionable-type person who, by the way, neither of these women are getting anything done in congress for their constituents. zippo, nothing. yet they attack people like liz cheney and john catco and jamie herrera butler, all of whom have passed dozens of bills that have improved the lives of their constituents as well as those of marginalry greene and lauren boebert. these women aren't doing anything of help to the country, and they're divisive, and they are dangerous. >> paul, therein lies the problem i think. gop congressman paul gosar, by the way, was censured and stripped of committee assignments for tweeting that photo shopped video of him

killing a democratic colleague. is barbara comstock right? does the republican party have a waste management issue here? they need to call out the g garbage collector? >> they do. and every movement is to purge the lunatics from it. a century ago there were scores of congressmen in the ku klux klan, and 16 senators were members of the klan. 11 governors. every single one was a democrat. i am ashamed to say. that's my party's history. every one of -- barbara's rig right,er every one was a democrat. the democrats purged the klan from their party and went from being the party of george wallace to the party of barack obama. i'm proud of that. ronald reagan went to maryland when a racist klansman burned a cross in front of an african american's home. he went to their home and said, "this is wrong, in is hate." and he purnled those lunatics -- purged those lunatics from his party. where is kevin mccarthy, the leader of the house republicans, who hopes to be speaker if the

republicans take the chamber? where are the leaders today? something that barbara got to, too many republicans no longer have an issue or agenda to make people's lives better, they simply want to own the libs. say what you will about the democrats, but they're mostly fighting about the speed and scale and scope of how to help people, childcare, cheaper insulin, lower prescription drug prices. that's what democrats are fighting for. republicans, i would say most of them, sadly, seem not to care at all about making anybody's life better, even their own constituents. but instead just owning the libs and now this awful islamophobic statement that quite rightly congressman boebert has apologized for. >> barbara comstock, where is kevin mccarthy in all of this? >> it's -- it happens every day. these guys, marjorie green is attacking kevin mccarthy. you also had masrk meadows, in contempt of congress and should be held in contempt and had the

same indictments that steve bannon is facing for not responding to congressional subpoenas, that same mark meadows who's not cooperating is attacking kevin mccarthy. winston churchill once said something to the effect of a friend of mine was reminding me, you chose shame to avoid war but got shame and war. it doesn't do you any good to appease these types of people. that's why i would encourage people, you know, support the lisa murkowskis, the lifz cheneys, those that marjorie green are opposing. support, if you're a republican, but also if you're an independent or a democrat in those red districts like lauren boebert's, like marjorie greene's, vote for the sane republican so you can take out this trash. >> and paul, let's listen to what marjorie taylor greene said about kevin mccarthy recently. pretty astounding. >> we know that kevin mccarthy

has a problem in our conference, we doesn't have the full support to be speaker. he doesn't have the votes that are there because there's many of us that are very unhappy about the failure to hold republicans accountable while conservatives like me, paul gosar, and many other just constantly take the abuse by the democrats. i'm demanded it. i want adam kinzinger and liz cheney kicked out of the gop conference. >> do you respect the republican leadership right now? >> no, no. i don't respect it at all. i can't respect leadership that doesn't hold people accountable. >> what do you think about that, paul? i mean, we should point out marjorie taylor greene did tweet, "i just got off a good call with gop leader kevin mccarthy, we spent the time talking about solving problems, not only in the conference but for our country. i like what he has planned ahead." it's almost as though, you know, these were two world leader who hopped on the phone with one another to sort out the issues around the globe here. this was quite a conversation it

sound like they had. >> and what an odd world congresswoman greene must live in to be actually able to say or to write that she wants leaders to hold people accountable. this is exactly my problem with congre congressman mccarthy is he's not holding them accountable or congressman gosar. in the way that barbara who, as you know, we've had terrible political disagreements over our life, but barbara is showing real honor and integrity in holding her own party to account. and this is the essence of leadership. this is where mccarthy has fallen down. it has not worked to appease marjorie taylor greene, i don't believe, because you will never please them. if we don't need look any further than poor mike pence who no one was more loyal to donald trump, and we know from reporting from jonathan karl and others that mr. trump thought it was just common sense to threaten the life of our vice president, even after four years of loyalty to him. there's no appeasing these

fringe elements in the republican party. they have to be purged. my hat's off to barbara for taking a leadership role in that. >> all right. paul, barbara, thank you so much. we'll be talking about the idea of appeasement later in the show, by the way. a little tease on that. thank you so much both of you, appreciate it. coming up, the information in the brian laundrie case that was kept secret until now. what his parents told the police weeks before he was found dead. wayfair's biggest cyber monday ever is now on. yes! score unbelievable savings. like area rugs up to 80% off. living room seating up to 70% off. and ge appliances up to 40% off. plus tons more limited-time deals. and free shipping on thousands of products. our cyber monday is happening now

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died by suicide from a gunshot wound to the head, we have new details about the case. according to their attorney, laundrie's parents found ape handgun was missing from their home in september, the same day they reported their son missing much they told police officers, but their attorney says both he and law enforcement agreed it was best not to make that information public. laundrie was the subject of a weeks' long hunt following the disappearance of his fiancee gabby petito. her remains were found in wyoming in september. a coroner later revealed she was strangled. brian laundrie is the only person ever to be named as a person of interest in her case. there's new fallout from the acquittal of kyle rittenhouse, the teen who shot two people during last year's black lives matter demonstrations in wisconsin. not only is the country's right-wing media putting the 18-year-old on a pedestal, now former president trump has jumped on the bandwagon. cnn's brian todd reports. >> reporter: the way donald trump tells it, kyle rittenhouse happened to be in the neighborhood. >> kyle, i got to know him. he wanted to know if he could come over and say hello. he was a fan.

>> reporter: so the former president told sean hannity on fox he welcomed rittenhouse and his mother to the mar-a-lago resort. >> he came with his mother. really a nice young man. >> kyle -- >> reporter: that was just a few days after the 18-year-old was acquitted of all charges in the fatal shootings of two people and the wounding of a third during last year's protests in kenosha, wisconsin. trump played the role of legal analyst, supporting rittenhouse's claim of self-defense. >> that was prosecutorial misconduct. he should not have had to suffer through a trial for that. he was going to be dead. if he didn't pull that trigger, kyle would have been dead. >> reporter: but even trump didn't gush over rittenhouse as bill blatantly as tucker carlson in rittenhouse's first interview since the acquittal. >> he struck us as bright, dutiful, hard working. exactly the person you would want many more of in your country. >> reporter: rittenhouse said he was trying to protect businesses from rioters. >> kenosha is my community.

and i just was upset seeing my community up in flames. >> reporter: rittenhouse is being hailed as a hero in other corners of the far right with republican congress members matt gaetz, lauren boebert, and madison hawthorne competing with each other to offer rittenhouse internships on capitol hill. >> kyle rittenhouse would make a good intern. >> madison hawthorne, he said he would arm wrestle me for this kyle rittenhouse intern shift. but madison hawthorne has some pretty big guns. so i would like to challenge him to a sprint instead. >> reporter: congressman hawthorne uses a wheelchair. republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene is also jumping in pushing a bill to award rittenhouse a congressional gold medal which has been bestowed on people like george washington, nelson mandela, winston churchill, and the wright brothers. >> he stands as an icon on the far right as someone who pushed back against the black lives matter movement, and he stands as someone who's sort of stands

for gun rights because he was open carrying during a protest and used his gun in a violent way. it was in the minds of many people on the right an attack on their version of america. >> reporter: in the carlson interview, kyle rittenhouse said the incident that's led to his prosecution never had anything to do with race, and that he supports the black lives matter movement and is hinting at possible legal action against people who have implied that he's a white supremacy like then-candidate joe biden did in a tweet last year. rittenhouse now saying that was actual malice and defamed his character. brian todd, cnn, washington. coming up, it's one of america's most unsolved mysteries. whatever happened to jimmy hoffa? there's a new development in the decades' long search. plus, during the 1920s, the osage people of oklahoma were some of the richest people in the world. but as lisa ling unconfederates, that wealth made them a target. discover the plot on "this is life with lisa ling" tomorrow night at 10:00 on cnn.

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